Emotional Expression of Traumatic Events

Coping Strategies and the Emotional Expression of Traumatic Events

Wednesday, 08 April 2009
Nostalgia is defined as “a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one’s life, to one’s home or homeland, or to one’s family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time.” We tend to think of nostalgia as a warm and fuzzy feeling about days gone by, people we used to know, and the sounds and smells of our youth. Nostalgia, in its very essence, is a happy term, meant to instill happy memories. But it wasn’t always so. .....READ MORE ...